Posted on 04/12/2007 9:55:36 AM PDT by LibWhacker
No specifics, but they mention in the article they’ll be initially priced “within a few times that of existing flat TVs.” Definitely targeting the status-symbol market. Look for that to drop rapidly, especially when other manufacturers jump in.
For the first time we heard “well, maybe next summer” meaning 2008. sigh
We’re keeping our fingers crossed...
Just wait till the laser based HDTV comes out later this year ...
Hello, e-paper 1.0!
Ten years from now, we’ll all have computer monitors like this. All “printed” materials will eventually migrate to thin-film paperlike video media.
Twenty years from now, PCs will be this — touch/voice activated computers the size and weight of a sheet of paper, with fullcolor motion video display, interface, and CPU in one. They’ll come in pads of 100 and will be disposable (and biodegrable, too).
Thirty years from now, there won’t be “computers”. Everything from your walls to your wallpaper will be part of a universally-networked data processing system of some sort. You’ll talk to your house and car, and they’ll talk back. “Master, I need an oil change. And the pressure in my right rear tire is 3.3 kilopascals too low.”
BUMP!
Thanks. Very cool......
Organic — gives ne meaning to that service call “I think my display died”.
LOL.. Dow Chemical developed AC-driven electroluminescent cells using doped anthracene in 1960, Kodak scientists discovered organic materials with light-emitting properties in 1979 and received the first patent for OLED in 1987...
Not bad for a technology that has been researched since the 1960’s...
how long do they last... 20,000 hours for blue phosphorescent based PHOLEDs, blue OLEDs typically have lifetimes of around 5,000 hours when used for flat panel displays...
We had a presentation at work from an individual working with the DOE.. I forget her name though... the presentation was regarding the use of OLED’s for white lighting
This is good news. It means that LCD and Plasmas will drop in price.
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